COPrBEYOEHILA. PRODICELLA. 222 



fuscous between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line "wliitish 

 defined by fuscous sufii'usion on inner side, angled inwards below 

 costa, outwards at veins 7, 0, 4, 3 and incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 3 ; the termen strongly suffused with brown on apical 

 half and with terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, 

 uniformly tinged with brown, the cilia white. 



Hab. U.S.A., California, cotype f $ in Coll. J. B. Smith. E.vp 

 24 millim. 



Genus PRODICELLA, nov. 



Type, P. darena. 



Proboscis tuUy developed ; palpi obliquely uptui-ned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rcl 

 moderate ; frons with large rounded prominence with corneous shovel-shaped 

 plate at middle and triangular plate below it ; eyes large, round ; autennEe of 

 male almost simple ; thorax clothed chieily with scales, the prothorax without 

 crest, the metathorax with rounded decumbent crest; tibia? slightly fringed 

 wiih hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 1 1 from cell. Hind wing- with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of diacooellulars ; <6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one- 

 third length. 



3844. Prodicella darena. 



Thal'pochares darena, Drnce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 496, pi. 95. f. 21 



(1«98). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous white ; tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown ; the medial 

 area, except beyond the reniform, and the terminal area darker red- 

 brown ; some dark red-brown on base of costa with a pale striga on 

 it representing the subbasal line ; antemedial line black-brown 

 with pale suffusion before it, almost straight and erect ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, with slight whitish annuli incompletely defined 



Fig. 52. — Prodicella darena, i^ . 



by dark brown, the former round, a dark streak before and between 

 them in discal fold ; postmedial line dark brown defined by whitish 

 on outer side, obsolescent except beyond the cell and below vein 2, 

 bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, below vein 4 

 bent inwards to below end of cell, then erect, same pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; an indistinct pale subterminal line with dark 

 brown patch before it on costal area, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle : a terminal series of blackish stria?. Hind wing white, the 



